初三英语上册M阅读小测.doc

Module 1-3阅读二、完形填空（10分）There is good news for the children in the countryside. We may still remember the girl_16_big eyes. Her big eyes are _17_us her dream, “I wish to _18_!” In China, there are still _19_girls and boys like her. They want to go to school, but their _20_ are too poor. If a family has two or three children, it is harder to _21_ the money for all the children, so the parents often ask _22_ to stay at home, and boys to go to school.Now they neednt _23_ the money. From 2006 on, children can go to school for free in some poor areas. They dont have to pay for books and other things. Some of them can even get money from the government to make their life _24_. In the future all the children in the countryside can go to school for free. All families are very happy with the news. It is _25_ great. ( ) 16. A. with B. on C. to ( ) 17. A. saying B. telling C. speaking ( ) 18. A. go to school B. go to bed C. go to school ( ) 19. A. a lot B. lot of C. a lot of ( ) 20. A. schools B. families C. houses ( ) 21. A. pay B. take C. buy ( ) 22. A. teachers B.girls C. boys ( ) 23. A. look up B. turn on C. worry about ( ) 24. A. better B. shorter C. longer( ) 25. A. really B. very C. hardly三、阅读理解（30分）(A) It is over a year now since Cathy came to China. She is now living in Nanjing and has worked in a computer factory for six months. This factory is in the north of the city, and her flat is in the south. But, she has never been late for work.Cathy is very popular in the factory. She is kind to everybody and gets on well with the Chinese workers. After work, in the evenings they visit each other and talk about almost everything.However, Cathy has made up her mind to leave the factory. She is going to find a job in a travel service. “If I work in a travel service, Ill be able to meet more people. I can learn more about China,” she told her friends.One day last week she had a talk with the manager of the travel service. He seemed pleased with her Chinese. At the end of the talk, he said, “Ill give you a ring in a week and tell you the result.” Now Cathy is waiting for the answer.( )26. Cathy has been in China for_.A. more than a yearB. half a year C. two and a half years D. two years( )27. She is_for work.A. always late B. always on time C. never on time D. often late( )28. Almost _ in the factory knows Cathy.A. nobody B. somebody C. everybody D. anybody( )29. She wants to work in_because she wants to know more about China andthe Chinese people.A. the south B. the hometown C. the north D. the travel service( )30. Cathys _must be quite good.A. Chinese B. Math C. Japanese D. physics(B) We need to raise money to pay the salaries(工资) of 13 teachers at three primary school in our area. These teachers who teach at these schools have to teach the students on their own. 40 pays for one teacher for one month 480 pays for one teacher for a year 6,240 pays for 13 teachers for a yearWe need money for middle school textbooks and language books. We can buy them in Malawi. We also need money to pay for the running costs of the library. They include(包括) the salaries of the three workers there.8 pays for one book84 pays for a years newspapers2,000 running costs of the library in a yearMore bicycles are needed for the forest guards(卫兵) who sometimes have to travel 10-15km in the forest. The money can provide the guards with bicycles to help them to do their jobs.65 pays for one bicycle1,300 pays for 20 bicycles( )31. The writer wrote the three passage to _. A. send his money to others B. raise money C. set up new schools D. change his own life( )32. The underlined part “on their own” means _. A. for a living B. with help C. without pay D. by themselves( )33. The three places in the passages may be _. A. in the big cities B. in the forest C. very poor places D. very rich places( )34. If a student raised 8, he could pay for_. A. one book for a library B. two teachers for one month C. a years newspaper D. one bicycle for a guard( )35. The RIGHT order (顺序) of the title of the passages is _. a. LIBRARY BOOKS AND RUNNING COSTS b. BICYCLE FOR FOREST GUARDS c. SALARIES FOR 13 TEACHERS A. c a b B. a b c C. b c a D. b a c (C)A new supermarket put on a notice inside the entrance. It said, Remember, once a week, one of our customers(顾客) gets free goods(things that cost nothing). This may be your lucky day! All the housewives who went to the supermarket had one great hope: to be the lucky customer who didnt have to pay for her shopping. For several weeks Mrs Blake hoped to be the lucky customer. Unlike many other customers, she never gave up hope. The cupboards in her kitchen were full of things she did not need. She dreamed of the day, when the manager of the supermarket would come and say to her, Madam, this is your lucky day and everything in your basket is free. One Friday morning, after she finished her shopping and had taken all the things to her car, she found that she had forgotten to buy tea. She went to the supermarket, got the tea and went towards the check-out. As she did so, she saw the manager of the supermarket come to her. Madam, he said, Congratulations! You are our lucky customer and everything in your basket is free!( )51. From the notice in the new supermarket, we know that _ A. customers could buy things at lower prices once a week B. the customer who bought the least goods didnt have to pay C. just one customer could get free goods once a week D. the first customer who bought goods in the supermarket was the lucky one( )52. What was Mrs Blakes hope? A. To buy something cheaper in the supermarket. B. To see the manager of the supermarket. C. To buy everything she needed in the supermarket. D. To be the lucky customer.( )53. Why did Mrs Blake go back to the market after her shopping? A. Because she wanted to see who would be the lucky customer. B. Because she forgot to buy one more thing. C. Because she had to pay for her shopping. D. Because she wanted to get another chance to be the lucky customer.( )54. Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage? A. The manager of the market was a clever businessman. B. In fact the notice for free goods was a trick (诡计). C. Mrs Blakes dream came true at last. D. Mrs Blake did shopping every week in the past several weeks.( )55. What would Mrs Blake probably say when she heard the managers words? A. “Oh, my God!” B. “How lucky I am!”C. “Bad luck!” D. “Its very kind of you!”四、主题匹配（10分）( ) 56. As students, we should study hard. This doesnt mean that we should just learn from our testbooks. Learning from everything is better. We can lern from useful magazines, newspapers or the Internet. Learning is endless.( ) 57. Fruit and vegetables are full of nutrition. They are also full of water, but low in fat. Eating lots of fruit and vegetables is a healthy choice. You should eat five or more servings of fruit and vegetables a day.( ) 58. You probably know that you need to be healthy, but do you know what that really means? And what is a healthy lifestyle? A healthy lifestyle includes healthy eating habits and exercise. Encouraging a healthy lifestyle in children is the most important thing.( ) 59. Screen time includes television, video games and computer use. Some screen time can be an excellent way to educate and entertain children, but too much is not good. If you are still spending a lot of time watching TV or playing computer games, stop now.( ) 60. Most children dont spend enough time moving their bodies. You should do at least one-hour physical activity every day. Regular physical activities help children keep a healthy body.A. Learning everything is very importantB. We should keep a healthy lifestyleC. A healthy diet is very important to usD. Dont spend too much time on screenE. Take more exercise to keep a healhty bodyF. Better late than neverIII. 完形填空 (10分) 通读短文，掌握大意，然后从所给的4个选项中选出一个最佳答案。After you are in the USA for some time, you can feel that the Internet has influenced peoples everyday life greatly. It exists (存在) _1_ in the USA. If you want to buy things, but are too lazy to go to shopping centers or 2 , thats OK! You can shop online! Now I have had 3 _ of shopping online! I have wanted a notebook for a long time. I 4_ and found that there were so many secondhand laptops! They all 5 pretty good for me! I was 6 that if I wanted something indeed, Id better bid（投标）at the last 7 . But for the first-time bid, I just wanted to experience the 8 of bidding online! Thats it! I told myself to be a serious bidder. I 9 what I wanted soon. It is a Fujitsu Lifebook C340, PII 233MHz, 92M, 3.2G, two years old. The owner priced 6005, but no one bid when the auction (拍卖) was three hours to the ending. I decided to 10 in my office to compete for it. When the auction was two minutes left, I started to refresh that page continuously. Suddenly, my 11 was down! If I restarted it, Id 12 the auction! I turned on Dr. Zhangs PC, entered the website as fast as I could, found that page and 13 my bid: 6105. But I was informed that I was outbid by 6155! So I had to bit 6255. I got it only twenty seconds before the auction was ended! It was really _14 !Its my first experience of shopping online. Later on, I bought phone cards, books and some other things online. It is very safe, 15 and convenient!1. A. anything B. somewhere C. everywhere D. nowhere2. A. schools B. offices C. factories D. supermarkets3. A. education B. experience C. example D. vacation4. A. watched B. caught C. visited D. enjoyed5. A. looked B. tasted C. smelt D. sounded6. A. spoken B. said C. talked D. told7. A. hour B. minute C. day D. week8. A. love B. business C. feeling D. friendship9. A. found B. noticed C. got D. made 10. A. live B. stay C. read D. sleep11. A. page B. phone C. computer D. office12. A. discover B. win C. design D. miss 13. A. offered B. considered C. sold D. brought 14. A. freezing B. surprising C. exciting D. boring15. A. clever B. polite C. silly D. fastIV. 阅读理解（30分） 阅读下面的短文，并做每篇后面的题目。(A) Take a look at our library! Our library is open to everyone and the library card is free! Books *picture books for children *information about the world *novels *books in 36 languages *stories of all kinds You can enjoy newspapers and magazines in the reading room.You can borrow five books at most one time and keep them for three weeks. VIDEO*all kinds of video films*TV plays*music video*special interestsYou can enjoy yourself and take time to watch your favourite videos at home.You can keep a video for a week for 1 dollar.You can borrow as many videos one time as you like. AUDIO*music for everyone; classical; rock; pop; jazz; blues; folk *language cassettes (磁带); 42 main languages in the worldSpecial rooms for you to enjoy listening. CDs and cassettes can be borrowed-FREE You can borrow one CD or one cassette one time and keep it for one week.1. Which of the following can only be enjoyed in the reading room?A. Newspapers. B. Music videos. C. CDs. D. Language cassettes.2. You should pay _ if you keep two videos for two weeks.A. 1 dollar B. 2 dollars C. 4 dollars D. nothing3. We can borrow _ CD(s) one time.A. five B. one C. three D. as many as you can4. In the library we can _.A. borrow the newest magazines B. watch our favourite video filmsC. listen to CDs of pop music D. find books in 42 main languages in the world5. Which of the following is NOT true?A. You can pay nothing for the library card.B. You can borrow as many videos as you like one time.C. There are rooms for you to enjoy TV plays in the library.D. You can borrow five books at one time and keep them for three weeks. (B) William Shakespeare was a writer of plays and poems. Some of his most famous plays are Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth. He wrote thirty-seven plays in all. They are still popular today. He was born in England. At school he liked watching plays. He decided to be an actor when he finished school at the age of fourteen. In 1582, he married a farmers daughter. She was eight years older than he was. Their first child was a daughter. Later they had twins. In 1585, Shakespeare left his hometown, Stratford-upon-Avon. His wife and children stayed behind. No one knows why he left or what he did between 1585 and 1592. At twenty-eight he moved to London and joined a theatre company which opened the Globe Theatre in 1599. He became an actor, and he also wrote plays. He usually acted in his own plays. He made almost no money from his writing. But he made a lot of money from acting. With the money he bought a large house in his hometown. At the age of forty-nine, Shakespeare retired (退休) and went to live in Stratford-upon-Avon. He died at the age of fifty-two in 1616. He left his money to his family. He left the genius (天才) to the world. You still see his plays in English and in many other languages. He is one of the most famous writers in the world.6. Shakespeare wrote many famous plays except _.A. Hamlet B. Macbeth C. Romeo and Julie D. Man and Superman7. Shakespeare decided to be an actor in _. A. 1578 B. 1582 C. 1599 D. 16168. In 1585, Shakespeare left his hometown Stratford-upon-Avon _.A. with his wife B. with his daughter C. with his wife and children D. alone9. Shakespeare got much money from _.A. writing B. plays C. acting D. retirement10. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?A. Shakespeare had two childrenB. Shakespeare wrote both plays and poemsC. Shakespeare left his money to the Globe Theatre.D. Shakespeare wrote plays in English and some other languages. (C) Tom Brennan was working in a Philadelphia (美国费城) office building when he noticed a black bag. There was a book in the bag. This discovery ended a 12-day search (搜寻) by the Library Company of Philadelphia for a historical treasure a 120-page diary that was kept 190 years ago by Deborah Logan, “A woman who knew everybody in her day,” James Green, the man working in the library told the magazine American Libraries. Most of the diary is a record of big events in Philadelphia. It also includes (包括) a description of British soldiers burning Washington D. C. in the war of 1812. She describes President James Madison on horseback as “perfectly shaking with fear” during the troubled days. George Washington, she writes, mistook her for the wife of a Frenchman, and praised her excellent English. The adventure of the lost book began on September 4, when Cory Luxmoore arrived from England to send the diary of his ancestor (祖先) to the Library Company. He and his wife thought the Library Company was the best home for the diary. James Green told American Libraries he had the diary in his hands for “about five minutes” when Luxmoore took it back because he wanted to show it to another person. On returning to his hotel after showing the diary to James Green, Luxmoore was shocked to realize that he had left it in the taxi. James Green began calling every taxi company in the city at once, but with no luck. “Ive felt sick since then.” Luxmoore told reporters. According to James Green, no one has yet learned how the diary came to the office building. Tom Brennan received a prize of $1,000. Philadelphia got another treasure for its history, and Luxmoore told reporters, “Its wonderful news. Im on high.”11. This article mainly tells about the story of _.A. a lost diary B. Deborah LoganC. Cory Luxmoore D. the Library Company12. From the passage, we learn that the diary is now owned by _.A. Tom Brennan B. an unknown personC. a Philadelphia magazine D. the Library Company of Philadelphia13. Philadelphia is thought to be the best home for the diary because _.A. it was written in Philadelphia B. it tells stories